John-Kevin Frazee, formerly of Dunn, graduated from Central Carolina Community College's Laser and Photonics Technology program in 2011. He now works for Synoptics, a division of Northrop Grumman. The college's Harnett County Campus has the only LPT program at a North Carolina community college and is one of only about a dozen in the nation to train students on high-power lasers. Its graduates are in great demand.

A 50,200-square-foot Central Carolina Community College Health Sciences Building is under construction in Brightwater Science and Technology Campus, in Lillington. The facility, scheduled to open in fall 2013, will provide state-of-the-art training in the healthcare field.

Harnett County and Central Carolina Community College celebrated the opening of the college's West Harnett Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Nov. 23, 2008. Taking part were (from left) the Rev. George Walton, pastor of Olivia Presbyterian Church, who gave the invocation; Harnett County Commissioner Dan Andrews; Dr. Bud Marchant, president of CCCC; county commissioners Teddy Byrd (behind Marchant), Beatrice Bailey Hill and Tim McNeill; Bobby Powell, CCCC Board of Trustees chairman; and Bill Tyson, Harnett County provost. The 8,500-square-foot Center, located in the Western Harnett Industrial Park, is the college's first permanent facility in the western area of the county.

Harnett County and Central Carolina Community College celebrated the opening of the college's West Harnett Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Nov. 23, 2008. The 8,500-square-foot Center, located in the Western Harnett Industrial Park, is the college's first permanent facility in the western area of the county.